Guest post: Why German coal power is falling fast in 2019
Karsten Capion is senior adviser at Danish Energy, the membership body for the Danish energy industry. In August, he will be joining the Danish...
Pacific Ocean shift could see 1.5C limit breached within a decade
Global average temperatures could pass 1.5C above pre-industrial levels within the next decade, new projections suggest.
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Deforestation has driven up hottest day temperatures, study says
The average hottest day of the year in Europe, North America and Asia has been made significantly more intense as a result of deforestation...
2017: Carbon Brief’s end-of-year review
As the year draws to a close, Carbon Brief takes a look at 2017’s top climate and energy stories through the medium of numbers…
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Guest post: How ‘high-resolution’ climate models will help Europe plan for extreme weather
“Convective” storms cause some of Earth’s most dramatic weather, including extreme rainfall, hail, lightning and severe wind gusts. Along with lighting up the skies,...
Guest post: How Arctic warming could have steered Hurricane Florence towards the US
Prof Jennifer Francis is a research professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University in New Jersey, US.
At around 7:15am...
Analysis: UK electricity generation in 2018 falls to lowest level since 1994
The amount of electricity generated in the UK last year fell to its lowest level in a quarter century, Carbon Brief analysis shows.
At the...
‘Foehn winds’ causing Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf to melt in winter
Parts of Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf are melting in the depths of winter, when temperatures typically stay well below freezing, research finds.
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The Carbon Brief Interview: Chris Stark
Chris Stark has been the chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) since February 2018. The CCC is the UK government’s official...
Climate change and deforestation threaten world’s largest tropical peatland
Just over a year ago, scientists announced the discovery of the world’s largest intact tropical peatland in a remote part of the Congo’s vast...
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